Rotary is short for Rotary International – a worldwide association of local clubs for men and women in business or the professions who
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provide humanitarian service to the community at local, national and international level
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encourage high ethical standards in all vocations; and work for goodwill and peace in the world.
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Farnham Weyside Rotary Club is based in the historic town of Farnham, Surrey.
Members are business and professional men and women who either live or work in the locality. Those who have retired are also welcome to join.
Female partners and acquaintances of Rotarians can become members of Inner Wheel, the Sister Club
On the evening of 23rd February, 1905, Paul Harris invited three friends to a meeting.
Silvester Schiele, a coal dealer, Hiram Shorey, a merchant tailor, and Gustavus Loehr, a mining engineer, gathered with Harris in Loehr's business office in Room 711 of the Unity Building in downtown Chicago on Dearborn Avenue. There the Rotary Club of Chicago was conceived, and the Rotary movement was born.
For more than one hundred years, business and professional people around the world have gathered weekly for fellowship, service and Rotary.